Valentine's Rising by E. E. Knight

Author:E. E. Knight
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: valentine, vam[pires, speculative fiction, fiction, Science Fiction, american, human-alien encounters, david (fictitious character), military, general, horror tales
ISBN: 9780451460592
Publisher: RoC
Published: 2005-12-06T00:00:00+00:00

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basset-hound eyes. “If you don’t like a place, your role in it, you get yourself out. I did the same, did you know that? My father was a senator in the old United States government. He didn’t survive ‘22. I barely remember him. My mother struck up a relationship with a general who’d been useful to the Kurians. His lordship held a few towns around the Potomac in northern Virgina.

I got my start as a courier; eventually I was running everything for miles around Harper’s Ferry. The Kurians are such children in a way; if you’re useful in getting them their candy, you can train them like Pavlov’s dogs. I learned the art of politics. There must be generational memory in the land, for the whole area around what used to be the District of Columbia is home to the most backbiting, infighting group of Kurians you can imagine, all holding court in their little monuments around the Mall. A woman named Rudland, I believe she was from New York, organized them into a ‘committee,” to cut down on the blood feuds. I’d help plead my lordship’s cases before the committee, and if that didn’t work, bribe a powerful member. Then a deal went wrong, and I had to—let’s just say I left in a hurry.

“Not that it’s been any easier out here. The soldiers I was originally going to use to flush out these backwoods killers suffered a setback when their Grogs revolted. Grogs are more trouble than they’re worth; I’ve said it enough, you’d think someone would be listening by now. Those fools on the Missouri. It’ll be a generation before that particular plan can be brought again to fruition. I’m not the first person to learn that if you want something done right, do it yourself, so I made deals to get the forces I needed. Though I haven’t sought a reputation in the cannon’s mouth, far from it. I earned my ring with words and ideas, not with bullets. They’re more powerful in the long run.”

“I’m still looking for mine.”

“I’ll tell you something an aging U.S. federal judge once told me. He had it on a plaque:

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